ALAN RHODES, P.6 FUZZ BUZZ, P.10 FOLKLIKE FEST, P.22 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 5.14.08 :: #20, v.03 :: FREE ’ FOR GROOVIN GRIZZLIES P.16 IMPROVATHON: THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS, P.18 WELDING RODEO: STEEL COWBOYS, P.20 SCIENCE AND SPIRIT: MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD, P.8 * A One-Night Career Fair for Local Tech Jobs * BELLINGHAM 38 38 FOOD 31 TechNight CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday - May 20, 2008 6:00pm – 9:00pm | Bellingham Cruise Terminal 26 www.BellinghamTechNight.com FILM FILM For questions, email us at [email protected] or call 360-647-4220 22 22 Hosted by MUSIC 20 20 ART NURSERY, LANDSCAPING & ORCHARDS For race day 18 and every day. STAGE UNIQUE No matter what the outing, 17 PLANTS FOR we’ve got you covered. GET OUT 16 NORTHWEST WORDS GARDENS 8 ornamentals, natives, fruit 360 543 5678 214 W. Holly Bellingham Spring: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4 Mo - Sa 10-7 Su 12-5 CURRENTS CURRENTS . 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Spring hours Mon-Friday 9-6, Sat 10-5 cascadia CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD WHENPOETSFROMNEARANDFAR CONVERGE IN LA CONNER MAY 15-17 38 38 FOR THE ANNUAL SKAGIT RIVER FOOD A glance at what’s happening this week POETRY FESTIVAL 31 THE ON ENSEMBLE WILL INJECT A CLASSIFIEDS 05.14.08 UNIVERSE OF SOUNDS INTO ITS ECLECTIC AND Hall Roller Betties Bout: 5pm, Sportsplex INSPIRING WORLD MUSIC LINEUP AT A GIG MAY 26 WEDNESDAY VISUAL ARTS 16 AT WWU’S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FILM ON STAGE Welding Rodeo: 8am-6:30pm, Bellingham Technical Drag Show: 6pm, Syre Student Center, WWU College The Male Intellect: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio 22 22 Theatre MUSIC 05.18.08 MUSIC Jussi Makkoken: 7:30pm, Christ the Servant Lutheran Church SUNDAY 20 20 Coty Hogue, Jenna Veatch: 7:30pm, Roeder Home ON STAGE ART GET OUT Grease Jr.: 2pm, Sehome High School Memorial Ride: 6pm, Fairhaven Village Green Polyanna: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden The Male Intellect: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio 18 Theatre STAGE 05.15.08 MUSIC Cascade Ensemble: 2pm, Whatcom Museum 17 THURSDAY Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU ON STAGE French Finale: 3pm, Firehouse Performing Arts GET OUT Grease Jr.: 7pm, Sehome High School Center The Male Intellect: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio Ellis: 7:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Theatre 16 The Laramie Project: 7:30pm, Black Box Theatre, WCC GET OUT WORDS Polyanna: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, DANCE Polyanna: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Fun Run: 8am, Stewart Mountain Lynden All-City Dance: 7pm, Bellingham Golf & Country Lynden Waterfront Festival: All day, Anacortes Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Club Improvathon: Dawn to dusk, Upfront Theatre 8 The Man Who Fell Off His Bicycle: 8pm, iDiOM Dance Blast: 7pm, Bellingham High School Brigadoon: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center VISUAL ARTS Theater The Man Who Fell Off His Bicycle: 8pm, iDiOM Eclectic Art Auction: 1:30pm, Conway Muse, The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC Theater Conway Fritz and the Freeloaders: 7pm, Bellingham Public CURRENTS DANCE Market DANCE Ballet Russe Film: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing On Ensemble: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, The Mind of Anxiety: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, 6 Arts Center WWU WWU 05.19.08 Alilo: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Contra Dance: 8-11pm, Fairhaven Library VIEWS MUSIC Ballroom Dance: 8:45-10:45pm, Melody Hall MONDAY Free Range Radicals: 6-8pm, Swan Café COMMUNITY 4 Ski to Sea Junior Parade: 6pm, downtown Bell- MUSIC WORDS WORDS ingham Jovino Santos Neto: 7:30pm, American Museum Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso MAIL Skagit River Poetry Festival: Through Saturday, Groovin’ for Grizzlies: 7pm, Boundary Bay Brewery of Radio 3 La Conner Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 7:30pm, Perform- COMMUNITY 3 GET OUT ing Arts Center, WWU Rock & Gem Club Meeting: 7pm, Bloedel Donovan DO IT IT DO DO IT Bike to Work and School Day: All day, Bellingham Skagit Symphony: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 05. .08 16 VISUAL ARTS Kulshan Chorus: 8pm, Bellingham High School 08 Welding Rodeo: 8am-5:30pm, Bellingham Technical Allan Thomas: 8pm, Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co. 05.20.08 .14. FRIDAY College 5 COMMUNITY TUESDAY ON STAGE Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Hall .03 20 The Male Intellect: 6pm and 9pm, Mount Baker Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts MUSIC # Studio Theatre 05.17.08 Center Jazz Swingtet: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Grease Jr.: 7pm, Sehome High School Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Spring Choir Concert: 8pm, Performing Arts The Laramie Project: 7:30pm, Black Box Theatre, SATURDAY Market Square Center, WWu WCC All-Breed Dog Show: 8am-6pm, NW Washington Polyanna: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden ON STAGE Fairgrounds, Lynden WORDS Improvathon: 7:30pm through 11pm Sat., Upfront The Male Intellect: 6pm and 9pm, Mount Baker Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, American Museum Theatre Studio Theatre GET OUT of Radio Brigadoon: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center Grease Jr.: 7pm, Sehome High School Ski to Sea Junior Race: 8am, Lake Padden Park CASCADIA WEEKLY The Man Who Fell Off His Bicycle: 8pm, iDiOM The Laramie Project: 7:30pm, Black Box Theatre, Waterfront Festival: All day, Anacortes TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND INFO Theater WCC Adaptive Cycle Expo: 11am-2pm, Bellingham City TO [email protected] 3 THIS ISSUE Contact Cascadia Weekly: D 360.647.8200 Editorial 38 38 Editor & Publisher: mail Tim Johnson FOOD D ext 260 CONTENTS CREDITS LETTERS ô editor@ 31 cascadiaweekly.com Arts & Entertainment TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE are still missing—and at least Editor: Amy Kepferle 13,000 are dead—after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit south- CLASSIFIEDS Dext 203 west China’s Sichuan Province at 2:28pm Monday afternoon. ô calendar@ More than 50,000 soldiers have been sent to the disaster zone. cascadiaweekly.com 26 Music & Film Editor: FILM FILM Carey Ross VIEWS & NEWS Dext 204 22 22 4: We’ve got mail ô music@ cascadiaweekly.com 6: Torturous traditions MUSIC Production 8: Science and spirit 10: The ecstasy and the agony Art Director: 20 20 Jesse Kinsman 13: The week in review ô graphics@ ART cascadiaweekly.com ART & LIFE Graphic Artist: 18 16: Grizzly groovin’ Stefan Hansen ô stefan@ STAGE 17: Ride on cascadiaweekly.com 18: The show that never ends Send All Advertising Materials To 17 [email protected] 20: A rodeo of art Advertising 22: Folklike fun GET OUT Nicki Oldham 23: Blurring the lines D360.929.6662 ô nicki@ 16 26: Swordplay and seniors cascadiaweekly.com SUPPORT BIKE LANES It has come to our attention of the CMPD strategically placed WORDS REAR END Marisa Papetti May (bike month) is a per- that there is a possibility to in- their boundaries in such a way D360.224.2387 28: Help Wanted, Services ô marisa@ fect time to reflect upon how stall bike lanes on Cornwall Av- that it includes only those vot- 8 lucky we are to live in such enue. 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Many cyclist com- to voice our support in the cre- need a self-appointed few to Bug, Advice Goddess muters have been using our ation of these bike lanes. add yet another tax burden on VIEWS VIEWS David Cloutier, Robert roadways throughout the win- —Shawn Collins, Stephanie the taxpayers for their own 38: Farm and garden Bell, JW Land & As- ter, and as summer approaches Reinauer, Levi Woollen-Danner, selfish motives. The CMPD 4 sociates 4 ô distro@ many more cyclists will be Bellingham needs to be stopped. MAIL MAIL MAIL CASCADIA cascadiaweekly.com taking to the road. —Judy Diaz, Bellingham Recently, there have been Letters NO NEW PARKS 3 Send letters to letters@cas- ©2007 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by two serious incidents, one of DIKSTRICT APPRECIATE VETS IN Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cadiaweekly.com. Keep letters DO IT IT DO which was fatal, involving col- The proposed Chuckanut ALL NATIONS PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 shorter than 300 words. [email protected] lisions between motorists and Mountain Park District would May I strongly suggest that Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia 08 Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing bicyclists who were legally us- create a new park district in Vietnam veterans need to be papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution ALAN RHODES, P.6 FUZZ BUZZ, P.10 FOLKLIKE FEST, P.22 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE .14. SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send HEART OF CASCADIA ing the roadway.